This is the account of Thubrons 15,000-mile journey through an astonishing country - one twelfth of the land surface of the whole earth. He journeyed by train, river and truck among the people most damaged by the breakup of the Soviet Union, traveling among Buddhists and animists, radical Christian sects, reactionary Communists and the remnants of a so-call Jewish state; from the site of the last Czars murder and Rasputins village, to the ice-bound graves of ancient Sythians, to Baikal, deepest and oldest of the worlds lakes.